Saturday, 27 July 2013

THE PRICE OF A VOTE IN SOUTH SHIELDS

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/revealed-the-cost-of-winning-and-losing-south-shields-by-election-1-5859924

LABOUR 12,493 votes / spent £81,688.92 = £6.54 a vote
UKIP 5,988 votes / spent £47,704 = £7.97 a vote
CONSERVATIVES 2,857 votes / spent £5,292.45 = £1.85 a vote
INDEPENDENT KHAN 1,331 votes / spent £3,189.95 = £2.40 a vote
INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST PARTY 750 votes / spent £1,058.99 = £1.41a vote
BNP 711 votes / spent £399.99 = 56 pence a vote
LIBDEMS 352 votes / spent £6,302 = £17.91 a vote
LOONEY PARTY 197 vote / spent £403 = £2.04
INDEPENDENT TOM 57 votes / spent £2,701.91 = £48.95


WHAT THE CANDIDATES SPENT
EMMA LEWELL-BUCK
Won with 12,493 votes (50.51 per cent)
TOTAL SPEND: £81,688.92
Advertising: £1,531.67
Unsolicited materials £25,293.64
Transport: £1,080.61
Agents/staff: £48,786.88
Accommodation/admin: £4,996.12
* Costs included £5,122.33 on postage and £2,343 on envelopes. £50 was spent on balloons and £347.43 on helium to blow the balloons up.
RICHARD ELVIN
Finished second with 5,988 (24.21 per cent)
TOTAL SPEND: £47,704
Advertising: £7,467.55
Unsolicited materials: £33,485.61
Transport: £1,243.14
Public meetings: £50
Agent and other staff costs: £4,800
Accommodation/admin: £658.65
* Costs included £3,000 to rent campaign office at a retail unit in King Street, South Shields, £118 for a night spent at the Sir William Fox Hotel in Westoe Village and £46.85 on a meal at Coffea Caban in South Shields’s Market Place.
KAREN ALLEN
Finished third with 2,857 (11.55 per cent of the vote)
TOTAL SPEND: £5,292.45
Advertising: £96
Unsolicited materials to electors (election leaflets/pamphlets etc): £4,315.99
Agent/staff: £740
Accommodation and Administration: £140
INDEPENDENT: Ahmed Khan.
Finished fourth with 1,331 votes (5.38 per cent)
TOTAL COSTS: £587.95
Unsolicited materials: £2,602
INDEPENDENT SOCIALIST PARTY: Philip Brown.
Finished fifth with 750 votes (3.03 per cent)
TOTAL SPEND: £1,058.99
Advertising: £71.99
Unsolicited materials: £987
BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY: Dorothy Macbeth Brookes.
Finished sixth with 711 votes (2.87 per cent)
TOTAL SPEND: £399.99
Unsolicited materials: £399.99
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS
Mr Annand polled a miserly 352 votes – despite being the third biggest spender at £6,302. In real terms that meant every single vote won cost a whopping £17.91
MONSTER RAVING LOONEY PARTY: Alan ‘Howling Laud’ Hope.
Finished eighth with 197 votes (0.80 per cent)
TOTAL COSTS: £403
Costs included £243 on accommodation at Douglas Vaults pub in South Shields – his campaign headquarters.
INDEPENDENT: Tom Darwood.
Finished last with 57 votes (0.23 per cent)
TOTAL SPEND: £2,701.91
Advertising: £1,181
Transport: £400
Accommodation/admin: £1,120.91
Personal expenses: £400

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